Tipping

[nailit]

Just read another post on AB Re: tipping.
Just why do we 'tip' some professions, eg taxi drivers but not others eg bus drivers? They both do the same job but somehow we reward one and not the other?
I might leave a tip if I ate in a restaurant but wouldn't 'tip' a McDonalds worker. Again, doing the same job (serving food) but why the disparity?

[Baldric]

Referring to your last paragraph, you tell us, you're doing it.

[nailit]

//Referring to your last paragraph, you tell us, you're doing it.//
Convention I guess, just wanted the views of others if that ok with you?

[Baldric]

Do try not to be patronising.

[nailit]

Kettle, pot and black baldric?
Just what is ur problem? If you don't want to answer then please feel free not to.

[bednobs]

lol baldric i almost spat my tea out at your response there. Coming from one of the most patronising curmudgeonly old gits on answerbank :)

[ummmm]

I really don't know. A taxi is more personal than a bus, a restaurant more personal than a burger joint.Maybe something like that.

And bednobs...spot on!

[Buenchico]

>>> one of the most patronising curmudgeonly old gits on answerbank

Oi! That's MY job!!!

[Baldric]

Less of the 'old' ;o)

[nailit]

//Oi! That's MY job!!! //
Sorry Chris, long way to go to catch up with Bladeric. Hes bragged on other threads how hes killed men and on one thread how he describes himself as 'butch'. Long way to go...

[Baldric]

Chris, I'll share the tips with ya!

[Baldric]

Oh, grow up Nailit!!

[Buenchico]

I accept that, as Nailit's post suggests, many (most?) people probably just tip (or don't tip) based upon 'tradition' or 'convention'.

However I think that there's possibly also an element of 'personal service' involved. For example, a bus driver simply goes where his employer tells him to go, whereas a taxi driver goes where I want him to go. Similarly, the staff in fast food restaurants are doing the same thing for everyone, whereas a good waiter and a good chef in a posh restaurant can make a customer feel 'special' in some way.

[nailit]

Yeah ok Balders, whatever you say....

[jno]

re McDonald's, they don't bring the food to your table, you do; they don't clear it away afterwards, you do; and they don't collect your money, you take it to them. They ought to tip you. (Okay, well, I don't see it happening, but I think there'sa huge difference in levels of service.)

Wee skivvies at the hairdresser because we think they're underpaid. Taxi drivers I must admit I've never understood.

[wolf63]

In a previous life we were forbidden from accepting anything from customers. One day a lady made a coffee and walnut cake for us. We were bad and accepted the cake. Then someone said "I bet she poisoned it". I didn't take a piece.

[Buenchico]

>>> re McDonald's, they don't bring the food to your table

You've obviously not been into a McDonald's recently, Jno!

If you order from the touch screens (rather than at the counter), as I usually do, there's now an option to have your food delivered to your table.

[jno]

indeed I haven't, Chris, so I didn't know that. If I need a burger I usually try Five Guys, who do things the old fashioned way but you can have millions of ingredients at no extra cost.

Still, if McDonald's staff now bring your food, maybe they should be in line for a tip after all?

[ummmm]

I've never seen a bring to your table option. How would they know what table to bring it to? In ours it's like queuing up in Argos waiting for your number to come up.

They have started deliveries though...

[jno]

presumably they number the tables? Only in Suffisticated Suffolk, I suppose. I did see an airport burger bar doing that recently, but not in Britain - they actually had every seat in the lounge numbered.

[bednobs]

you put in which area you are sitting in (A or B) and then put the receipt on your table for the server to see